Assignments

Critical Question Presentation and Roundtable (20%) -- You will be a required to sign up in small groups for an oral presentation and roundtable during the course of the semester. For your presentation, you will read the texts assigned for a particular week, summarize and articulate two or three main points from the week’s scholarly or critical text (as assigned), generate a critical question connecting the theory to the text, and contribute to in-class and online discussion for the week.

In-Class Quizzes (10%) -- There will be seven or more in-class quizzes at various times during the semester. These quizzes serve as a review of the week’s main ideas, terms, texts, and readings. These quizzes will include identifications, fill-in-the-blanks, definitions, and short answers.

Online Reflections (10%) -- There will be seven or more online reflections required over the course of the term. These reflections are short reactions, responses, meditations, and provocations that engage the week’s texts on a critical, analytical, or theoretical level. Reflection opportunities will be posted to the class Blackboard. These online responses will be evaluated on completion and your critical, analytical engagement with the prompt.

Creative Responses (10%) -- Over the course of the semester, you will write a short-short story, create a drawing, and generate a critical review as an alternative way to explore and demonstrate the ideas and goals of the course. These creative responses will be evaluated on completion and your critical, thoughtful engagement with the prompts.

Final Reflection (20%) -- At the end of the semester, you will complete a 4-6 page analytical reflection paper that ask you to respond to the readings, the theoretical texts, and to assess your own work and performance in class. The final reflection is cumulative and based on the class readings, online reflections, other media, and in-class and Blackboard discussions.

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

Ed's Top Ten List of "Ways to Survive University"

Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

What is Close Reading?

How to Write a Summary

Claims, Claims, Claims

Introductions & Conclusions

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

MLA Citation and Bibliographic Format

Revision Check-List

Readings

The course texts are available via the Little Professor Book Center (65 S. Court) or Ohio University online bookstore (or through any reputable bookseller). Shorter readings are available via the course Blackboard. The required texts for this class are:

Nguyen, Qui. She Kills Monsters (Young Adventurer's Edition) Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti

Consult the course syllabus for the week's required reading. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin. "Disability." Keywords for Disability Studies. NYU Press. 29 May 2018. https://keywords.nyupress.org/disability-studies/essay/disability/. Al-Maria, Sophia. "The Righteous Guide of Arabsat." The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. Eds. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin. Solaris, 2017. 221-233. Aultman, B. "Cisgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 61-62. Bell, Andrea L. and Yolanda Molina-Gavilan. "Introduction: Science Fiction in Latin America and Spain." Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain. Eds. and Trans. Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilan. Wesleyan University Press, 2003. 1-19. Bereola, Abagail. "A True Utopia: An Interview With N. K. Jemisin." The Paris Review. 3 Dec. 2018. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/12/03/a-true-utopia-an-interview-with-n-k-jemisin/ Borges, Jorge Luis. "The Garden of Forking Paths." Ficciones. Ed. Anthony Kerrigan. Grove Press, 1962. 89-101. Borges, Jorge Luis. "On Exactitude in Science." Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions. Trans. H. Hurley. Penguin Books, 1998. 325. Burgett, Bruce. "Sex." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 217-221. Butler, Octavia E. "Bloodchild." Bloodchild and Other Stories. Seven Stories Press, 1995. 3-32. Byrd, Jodi A. "Other Games, Other Histories." ROMchip. 1.1 (July 2019) https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/69 Carneiro, Andre. "Brain Transplant." Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain. Eds. and Trans. Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilan. Wesleyan University Press, 2003. 196-200. Chang, Edmond Y. "Close Playing, a Meditation on Teaching (with) Video Games." edmondchang.com. 11 Nov. 2010. http://www.edmondchang.com/2010/11/11/close-playing-a-meditation/ Chang, Edmond Y. "Musings on Asianfuturism." edmondchang.com. 27 Apr. 2020. http://www.edmondchang.com/2020/04/27/musings-on-asianfuturism/ Cherniavsky, Eva. "Body." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 26-29. Chideya, Farai. "Hugo Nominee Nnedi Okorafor." NPR. 20 Aug. 2016. https://www.npr.org/2016/08/20/490771640/hugo-nominee-nnedi-okorafor-breaks-down-her-sci-fi-writing Consalvo, Mia. "There is No Magic Circle." Games and Culture. 4.4 (2009) 408-417. Davis, Jonita. "How Black Women Are Reshaping Afrofuturism." Yes! Magazine. 24 Apr. 2020. https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2020/04/24/how-black-women-are-reshaping-afrofuturism/ Dillon, Grace. "Imagining Indigenous Futurisms." Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon. University of Arizona Press, 2012. 1-12. Du Bois, W.E.B. "The Comet." Dark Matters. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas. New York: Aspect, 2000. 5-18. Ferguson, Robert A. "Race." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 191-196. Georgiou, Myria. "Identity." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 94-98. Gray, Herman. "Race." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 61-164. Gray, Kishonna L. and David J. Leonard. "Introduction." Woke Gaming. Eds. Kishonna L. Gray and David J. Leonard. University of Washington Press, 2018. pp. 3-23. Greene, Stuart and April Lidinsky, Eds. From Inquiry to Academic Writing (5th Edition). Macmillan, 2020. Halberstam, Judith. "Gender." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 116-120. Hao, Jingfang. "Invisible Planets." Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation. Trans. and Ed. Ken Liu. Tor, 2016. 201-218. Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat. "Sultana's Dream." Sultana's Dream: A Feminist Utopia and Selections from The Secluded Ones. Ed. and Trans. Roushan Jahan. The Feminist Press, 1988. pp. 7-18. Jemisin, N.K. "The City Born Great." Tor.com. 28 Sep. 2016. https://www.tor.com/2016/09/28/the-city-born-great/ Khan, Aysha. "Muslim Women are Building New Worlds in Science Fiction." The Washington Post. 17 Jul. 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/muslim-women-are-building-new-worlds-in-science-fiction-and-changing-the-confines-of-the-genre/2020/07/17/ddea6a6e-c7aa-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html LaPensee, Elizabeth. "When Rivers Were Trails: Cultural Expression in an Indigenous Video Game." International Journal of Heritage Studies. 27.3 (2021) 1-15. Lewton, Thomas. "Feminist Visions of Science and Utopia in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream." Lady Science. 31 Jul. 2019. https://www.ladyscience.com/features/feminist-visions-science-fiction-utopia-rokeya-hossain Liu, Cixin. "The Worst of All Possible Universes and the Best of All Possible Earths: Three Body and Chinese Science Fiction." Trans. Ken Liu. Tor.com. 30 Oct. 2014. https://www.tor.com/2014/10/30/repost-the-worst-of-all-possible-universes-and-the-best-of-all-possible-earths-three-body-and-chinese-science-fiction/ McPherson, Tara. "Digital." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2020. https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/digital/. Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina. "The Altermundos of Latin@futurism." Alluvium. 15 Mar. 2017. https://www.alluvium-journal.org/2017/03/15/the-altermundos-of-latinfuturism/ Murad, Mahvesh and Jared Shurin. "Introduction." The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. Eds. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin. Solaris, 2017. 5-9. Narcisse, Evan. "The Natural: The Trouble Portraying Blackness in Video Games." Kotaku. 13 Feb. 2017. http://kotaku.com/the-natural-the-trouble-portraying-blackness-in-video-1736504384 Nguyen, Qui. She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurer's Edition. Samuel French, 2016. Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti. Tor, 2015. Okorafor, Nnedi. "Organic Fantasy." African Identities. 7.2 (May 2009) 275-286. Prashad, Vijay. "Orientalism." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 174-177. Rodriguez, Juana Maria. "Latino/a/x." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 154-157. Sanders, William. "When This World Is All on Fire." Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon. University of Arizona Press, 2012. 149-170. Somerville, Siobhan B. "Queer." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 187-191. Somtow, S.P. "The Thirteenth Utopia." Analog. 99.4 (April 1979): 144-160. Tchen, John Kuo Wei. "Asian." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2014. 18-21. Warrior, Robert. "Indian." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. NYU Press, 2020. https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/indian/. Williams, Cristan. "Transgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 232-234. Print. Yang, Gene Luen and Thien Pham. Level Up. Square Fish, 2011.

Media & Games

Collins, Tiger. Evicted. 2019. https://tigercollins.itch.io/evicted Everything, Everywhere All At Once. Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022. Frasca, Gonzalo. September 12. 2010. http://www.onseriousgames.com/september-12th-a-toy-world-newsgame/. PC. LaPensee, Elizabeth. When Rivers Were Trails. 2019. https://indianlandtenure.itch.io/when-rivers-were-trails Momopixel. Hair Nah. 2017. http://hairnah.com/. Ren, Mike. Yellow Face. 2019. https://mikeyren.itch.io/yellowface Robot Stories. Directed by Greg Pak, 2003. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, 2021. Small, Catt. SweetXHeart. 2016. https://cattsmall.itch.io/sweetxheart Yang, Robert. Intimate, Infinite. 2014. https://radiatoryang.itch.io/intimate-infinite

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